#truthtopower — Public Fediverse posts
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#Money, the interesting thing about it is if you #exist in #poverty, you desperately need it for your day to day survival, then if your on the opposite end as in being a multi million or billionaire in reality money means nothing, because everything you own and do is leveraged off of debt that you one don't actually own and second can never actually satisfy, and the rules of the game are very different for those in poverty, and the rules are slightly different if your in the middle, but if your on top, the rules don't apply to you unless somehow your generation and hoarding of wealth imposes upon another top income holder, basically if your in poverty all the way to the bottom end of double digit millions, your beholden to the entire state if it where, and beyond that the entire state apparently is beholden to you and your ability to leverage debt, it is a rigged system of epic inequality and strongly embraces prejudice against the rest of us whom simply would appreciate the basics in life to be readily available without so much turmoil, and stress to our mental and physical wellbeing, money is an illusion of power and has left far to many of us going hungry, literally;
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#Austerity #Awareness #BrokenSystem #Capitalism #Change #ChronicPoverty #CorporateGreed #CriticalThinking #DailyStruggle #DebtSlavery #DisabledVoices #DisabilityJustice #EconomicInequality #EconomicJustice #EconomicViolence #Economics #Education #ExistentialThought #Financial #FinancialTrauma #FinanciallyDistressed #FoodInsecurity #Hunger #Homelessness #HumanCost #IllusionOfWealth #Inequality #Justice #LateStageCapitalism #MarginalizedVoices #MentalHealthMatters #MutualAid #Neoliberalism #Oligarchy #PhilosophyOfMoney #Plutocracy #Politics #PovertyAwareness #PowerAndControl #PowerDynamics #RealTalk #Reform #RiggedSystem #SocialCommentary #SocialEconomicWarfare #SocialJustice #Society #Solidarity #SpeakTruth #StatusQuo #SupportDisabled #Survival #SystemicOppression #SystemicPoverty #TaxTheRich #TruthBomb #TruthToPower #WakeUpCall #WealthGap #WealthInequality #WorkingClass #WorkingPoor
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In his latest article for #NewPolitics, #EddyJokovich has written up a boilerplate policy platform which would make for a great beginning in cleaning up our polity and laid the groundwork for substantial progresive legislation. It’s time we took a broom to our wokring democracy and deliver for the people.
“As we’ve discussed many times before, the immediate reforms are available right now: real-time disclosure and tighter limits on political donations; comprehensive registration of professional and in-house lobbyists and restrictions for how much access they can gain with ministers; publication of ministerial diaries; enforceable cooling-off periods for former ministers; stronger whistleblower laws and protections for journalists; truth-in-political-advertising, effective and workable Freedom of Information rules and a properly resourced National Anti-Corruption Commission operating with greater transparency than what it has shown over the past three years.”
Now, Jokovich isn’t exceptional in the sense that he alone has the answers to our political problems, but he neatly summarises what most of us are thinking and hence what most of us want done. There’s lot we need to do so we need govt to prioritise. For my money (my vote), Eddy’s list above would make a great election platform for the Greens to campaign on (and sell). In truth, I’d vote for anyone pledging to work and fight for these initial reforms.
https://www.newpolitics.com.au/p/australias-broken-political-system
#AusPol #PoliticalInfluence #Lobbyists #Millionaires #Billionaires #DemocraticReform #ParliamentryReform #ProgressivePolicies #ThisIsNotMyLaborParty #FundingPolitics #PoliticalDonations #Transparency #Accountability #TruthToPower #MediaOwnershipReview
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3/3 so the cooperation we require to end climate change is not the cooperation of hierarchy that built cathedrals or other institutions to demonstrate power. We need the cooperation of mediation, peacemakers, women, minorities everywhere. We find love of children, inclusion of gender, equality of all cultures and faiths is our equipment in this fight. It is about powerless voices finding a way to permanently & effectively influence power. And then we need to write laws which curb the personal and national accrual of resources which in turn increases climate change. This isn’t as glib as to say the west is the problem or billionaires are the problem, the problem has created the Western world as we know it, the problem has created billionaires as humans race to secure as much planetary resources as they can for themselves. The problem is an ethical one, it is as old as the ages, and it is selfishness.
We can do this, but we need to let go the war/sport/construction lens of victory and share the future, starting with ourselves, starting with personal choice, and working outwards like a net of ecological respect and interpersonal dignity.
We need to let go greed, to let go victory, and to embrace the possibility of a bearable future. This is the human cooperation that is required. It isn’t easy, but it is possible.
#mediation #ethics #ClimateChange #TruthToPower
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RE: https://appdot.net/@morrick/116867583261531107
Holy Sh*t! This is the Sunday morning "Truth to Power" wake-up I didn't know I needed! This man speaks for me like I don't often hear!
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It takes #AmyRemeikis to write such a column. Why aren’t there more like Amy? What is it about #Journalists that they have lost their personal voices while going about their job… reporting… analysing… informing… By all accounts #Parliament is a a #Swamp filled with #Egos and #UntramelledAmbitions (because any #idealism that spurrs anyone entering politics is soon knocked out of them).
https://open.substack.com/pub/deepcutnews/p/political-operatives-are-trying-to
Fact: If every Journo pushed back on personal attack and made them public, it would soon stop. Keeping mum is tentamount to #Enabling.
Fact: You do not have to be a #SagoBack to do your job well.
Fact: Bullies only bully when they get results from it.
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#TruthToPower commencement speech grade:
Conan O'Brien: A
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Here's a fantastic - and all too rare - example of speaking truth to power! Economist Steve Keen gave former Trump advisor Stephen Moore a heaping helping in a recent Piers Morgan interview. Moore's tiny little brain nearly exploded when Keen said "You're the bad guys!" after Moore intoned about the evils of the Iranian government.
A ten-minute segment is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34ljs1ysnl8
If you have time for the full episode, it's here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOgEnjoy!
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From this article about Poland standing up to Trump:
' Trump’s “Ambassadors” are not diplomats, they’re MAGA operatives incentivized to destabilize the countries they are currently “serving in.”
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The End For #KidStarver and #IlDuceOrangeGarbage In 2026 🎉
(Comment: But we've got to keep fighting :antifa: )
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nh3BL3PwvA&pp=ugUHEgVlbi1HQg%3D%3D
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A poem confronting inequality, political greed, and the cost of looking away. A sharp critique of leaders who protect wealth while the vulnerable fight to survive.
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GWENDOLEN: On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one’s mind. It becomes a pleasure.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet, wit, dramatist
The Importance of Being Earnest, Act 2 (1895)More info about this quote: wist.info/wilde-oscar/79756/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #oscarwilde #wilde #earnestness #truthtopower #brutalhonesty #candor #duty #plainspeaking #speakout #speakup
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‘If someone did a study on humans but did it inside a prison using the prison population as subjects, we would instantly reject it.’ But if it’s on wolves – we just swallow it whole.’ https://www.politicsplus.org/blog/2025/10/02/open-thread-october-2-2025/ And yet those in power financed by the ultra wealthy seek to normalise hierarchial divisions that favour Apartheid: men against women, ethnic supremacy against ethnicity, sex against gender, neurotypical against neurodiversity, and corporations rights against interests rights. #Authoritarians against #democracy. Is not the elephant in the room and the enemy within: mechanised experimentation against reason and sensation as it is the basis of the fascist tech that is driving ecocide? #TruthToPower #LiarsDivisions #ProofAndDemonstration #JaneGoodall
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📚✍️ So, the brave truth-teller who dared criticize the Almighty Meta now faces financial ruin. The irony? They've been silenced by the very subject of their exposé. Who knew speaking truth to power came with a bankruptcy clause? 💸🙃
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/21/meta-expose-author-sarah-wynn-williams-faces-bankruptcy-after-ban-on-criticising-company #truthToPower #financialRuins #MetaCritique #censorship #irony #HackerNews #ngated -
The only way to loosen its grip is for “good white folx” to finally learn how to exist among the rest of us without leaning on the unearned privileges you’ve been afforded. Until that happens, none of us will be able to breathe.
#MythOfWhiteSupremacy #GoodWhiteFolx #SolidaritySlip #KimCrayton #TruthToPower #AntiracistPractice #NoNeutral
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#ukpol #cymru @ChrisMayLA6 @instance-toot.wales @Vibracobra23 Issue 11 Published today. Hard copies available around Pembroke Town. This issue 'dropping pebble in pools' . All the normal art, cartoons, photography and resistence #politics - show #truthtopower ✊ 😎 🇪🇺 https://www.theguardian.com/global/2025/jun/26/sign-up-to-matters-of-opinion-a-weekly-discussion-from-our-columnists-and-writers?CMP=share_btn_url
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We might have understood and admired in him protest in the name of legality and liberty, proud opposition, legitimate but perilous resistance to the all-powerful Napoleon. But what pleases us in the treatment of those on their way up is less pleasing in the treatment of those on their way down. We approve of fighting only so long as there is danger, and in any case only those who fought in the first instance have the right to be exterminators at the last. He who has not been a persistent opponent in times of prosperity should remain silent when the downfall comes. Challenging success gives the only legitimacy to prosecuting failure.
[Nous eussions compris et admiré la protestation au nom du droit et de la liberté, l’opposition fière, la résistance périlleuse et juste à Napoléon tout-puissant. Mais ce qui nous plaît vis-à-vis de ceux qui montent nous plaît moins vis-à-vis de ceux qui tombent. Nous n’aimons le combat que tant qu’il y a du danger ; et, dans tous les cas, les combattants de la première heure ont seuls le droit d’être les exterminateurs de la dernière. Qui n’a pas été accusateur opiniâtre pendant la prospérité doit se taire devant l’écroulement. Le dénonciateur du succès est le seul légitime justicier de la chute.]Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
Les Misérables, Part 1 “Fantine,” Book 1 “An Upright Man,” ch. 11 (1.1.11) (1862) [tr. Donougher (2013)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/hugo-victor/78713/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #victorhugo #lesmiserables #lesmiz #bandwagon #challenge #danger #opposition #power #protest #punchingdown #punchingup #risk #risktaking #truthtopower #stakes
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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him in so far as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth — whether about the President or about any one else.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)
Essay (1918-05), “Lincoln and Free Speech,” Metropolitan Magazine, Vol. 47, No. 6Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/3…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #teddyroosevelt #theodoreroosevelt #country #criticism #government #loyalty #nationalinterest #patriotism #president #publicofficial #publicservice #truthtopower #truthtelling #truth
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https://blogmagazine2025.blogspot.com/2025/07/michael-wolff-breaks-silence-on-trump.html
#MichaelWolff #DonaldTrump #JeffreyEpstein #TrumpEpsteinConnection #PoliticalScandals #InvestigativeJournalism #TrumpControversies #EpsteinSecrets #TrumpAndEpstein #JournalistMichaelWolff #ExposingTheTruth #MediaAndPower #Trump2024 #PoliticalAccountability #BreakingNews #TruthToPower #PressFreedom #WolffRevealsAll #EpsteinFiles #UnmaskingCorruption -
Street Protest (8 Photos)
Which one is your favorite?https://streetartutopia.com/2025/06/06/street-protest-8-photos/
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#handsoff2025 Protest today!!!!! Join up with others to say #HandsOff our democracy and fight for your freedom!!!! Find Your LOCAL PROTEST HERE; https://www.mobilize.us/handsoff/
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AI roasting Elon Musk
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Here's our editor-in-chief being interviewed for the Bylines Network Podcast about how it all happened five years ago, and what's next for the Network!
#HappyBirthdayYorkshireBylines #TruthToPower
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7idGjpbJCrS4Q6RuXZRI5s -
Tomorrow is a BIG day! Yorkshire Bylines turns five, and you can join the party.
Did you know we were the first of the 10 Bylines Network publications to launch? That means we're celebrating our whole network's birthday - half a decade of powerful citizen journalism that speaks #TruthToPower in the UK.
Be part of the birthday celebrations by posting a happy birthday message at 6pm on Tuesday 15th April. Here's Su, one of our brilliant Yorkshire Bylines editors, to tell you more.
